Calls for maintaining social distancing, distributes masks SRINAGAR, APRIL 06: General Manager (GM) SIDCO Aga Syed Aijaz today visited various industrial estates and quarantine homes established therein, to take stock of the steps taken to combat the spread of corona virus. The GM interacted with the president of industrial associations at industrial estate Shalteng, Rangreth […]
Srinagar: The number of coronavirus cases climbed to 109 in Jammu and Kashmir as three more persons under quarantine tested positive for the dreaded diseases on Monday. Among them, sources said one is from frontier Uri town of Baramulla district while two others are from Srinagar district. The case from the Uri is said to be […]
Srinagar: Three more soldiers, who were injured in a gunfight with militants in Kupwara woods, have succumbed to their wounds, talking the number of army personnel killed in the operation to eight including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Besides the soldiers, five militants were also killed in the gunfight which sporadically continued for several days […]
Srinagar, April 6 (KNS): While reacting to J&K administration’s directive to fell all female Russian poplar trees “to contain” pollen related infections in Kashmir, CPI (M) J&K Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik today said it would be an economic and ecological disaster which needs to be averted. A statement issued to KNS said the decision of the […]
A local police constable was injured in accidental firing on Monday in high security Gupkar Road area of Srinagar city. Police said a police constable of the Special Security Group (SSG) was injured when his service rifle went off in the SSG lines in Gupkar Road area on Monday. Police said he was shifted to […]
Srinagar: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sunday airlifted for treatment the ailing father of a 36-year-old man who had begun to cycle back home to Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district from Mumbai where he works as a watchman. After ThePrint’s report Friday on the arduous journey Mohammad Arif had embarked on after learning that his father, Wazir […]
‘Contact tracing going on scientifically, sample collection being taken to doorsteps’ SRINAGAR, APRIL 05: At a time when the world is grappling with deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has established timely COVID-19 hospitals—which are working round the clock and performing sample testing swiftly. Director, Health Services Kashmir, Dr Samir Mattoo said that the […]
Srinagar: Five militants and as many soldiers including a JCO from army’s elite para force were killed on the fifth day of an ongoing operation in the woods of Kupwara district in north Kashmir on Sunday. Defence ministry spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said that the slain militants were infiltrators and that the operation was still going […]
Srinagar, April 05 (KNS): Congress has said that those who have completed their normal period of quarantine at different places in and outside J and K should be facilitated to their respective locations and there should not be any pick and choose of privileged ones. In a statement issued to KNS chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma […]
Srinagar April 05 (KNS): As J&K is witnessing continous spike in Covid-19 positive cases, five more persons which were reported today includes five persons from Uri town of Baramulla district on Sunday. According to Kashmir News (KNS), Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Uri Reyaz Ahmad Malik said that all fresh cases are family members of the two […]